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UTM snow, class policy 
discussed by Chancellor 


by Sl/ANNE \1c( \R I in 
Editor 


January 12 16. and 25 forced 
sjxjrts contest cancellations 
as vs ell as student 
organization meetings and 
activities F x t r e m e I y 

hazardous driving conditions 
warnings issued by the state 
highway patrol, posed a 
serious problem to commuting 
students 

I T Knoxville and MTSl 


among other Tennessee 
universities, cancelled classes 
lor a day when dangerous 
driving conditions were at a 


Student activities and the 
publication of The Pacer wen 
interrupted for two w«t*ks due 
to inclement weather con 
dilions and hazardous roads 
although classes at l TM 
continued to meet 
Three heavy snowfalls 


V\c decided not to , cancel 
classes lor a variety of 
reasons. Chancellor l^arry T 
Met iehee explained There 
are no completely satisfactory 
solutions to such emergency 


Horsepower to manpower 


Safety and Security had an increased 
number of calls for assistance in starting cars Ted Council 
head of Safety and Security said there were no major ac¬ 
cidents due to the weather although there were a few minor 
fender tenders 


Chute fire in Austin Peay 


discloses faulty sprinklers 


were already here and 
snowbound Had the snow 
occurred at the break 
registration could have been 
delayed some, but coming as 
it did in mid week and after 


Beauty, talent featured 


system totally inoperative 
Austin Peay head resident 
David Belote said that the 
sprinkler system was not 
working due to a “malfunc 
lion", and not because the 
sprinkler heads were not 
replaced after the last time 
they were used, as officials 
had earlier thought 

The trash room has a 
separate alarm system from 
the rest of the dorm, and is 
triggered by the sprinkler 
system Because the 

sprinkler asvstem was shut 
off. the trash room alarm did 
not sound 

Ralph Marcus of Safety and 
Security makes periodic 
checks of alarm systems in 
the dormitories and said the 
system was working the last 
time he checked 

I checked Austin Peay 
about two weeks ago and it 


was working then, Marcus 
stated 

Afterwards . Chief 
Williams checked the trash 
chute on ( side and found that 
its water valve was also shut 
off The door, which must 
always remain closed to 
contain the trash, was found 
open and garbage piles had 
flooded out of the chute area 
Williams stated that the 
conditions were "serious fire 
hazards" and that he would 
not be surprised to find the 
same conditions in all of the 
other residence halls. 

We were fortunate the fire 
was contained in the 
trashroom," Belote eon 
eluded "The room is fire 
proof It could not have 
spread 

Firemen attempted to 
straighten up the area, and 
left the campus at 7:30 


Silver Screen films 
put on ‘movie menu’ 


A lire broke out early 
Monday morning in the trash 
chute on the I) side of Austin 
Peay Hall 

Robert Beasley I>3 
resident assistant, discovered 
the fire about 6 30 am 
According to Beasley, the 
trash in the chute had just 
piled up, and there was 
spontaneous combustion 

Residents on the I) wing 
were notified by Beasley and 
Kd Chin, Head Resident, since 
the alarm system was not 
operating in the trash room 
One fire turck and three 
official vehicles arrived on 
the scene at 6 30and put out 
the fire without further in 
cident The flames did not 
spread beyond the original 
area, hut minimal smoke 
damage may have occurred 
as the smoke filled all three 
hallways 

M L) Williams . chief of 
Martin’s fire department, said 
he felt the blaze was caused by 
a lit cigarette thrown down the 
chute 

"Spontaneous combustion m 
really unlikely." Williams 
stated "Probably it was 
caused by someone throwing a 
cigarette down the chute 
Whether it happened ac¬ 
cidently or on purpose ! can i 
say " 

Williams inspected the 
sprinler system, which is 
intended to automatically put 
out such fires He found th.it 
the sprinkler head needs 
replacing, and that the water 
valve was closed, making the 


by \ \ NFTTE BE l.l. 

Staff Writer 

The Silver Screen Classics 
senes is the newest addition to 
the l TM movie menu, 
enabling film fans to view 
classic motion pictures of 
yesteryear, and milestone 
Mims Ixith in cinematography 
,uid at the box office 
The series will wind up 
February 28 with the most 
jHipular motion picture of all 


time "Gone with the Wind." 
Released in 1939 and starring 
Vivien lA*igh, Clark Gable and 
Olivia de Havilland, this film 
stands out not only as a love 
story, hut as an accurate 
account of the havoc- 
wreaked on the South and its 
culture by the Civil War 

All films w ill be shown in the 
Ballroom Admission is 75 

cents 



$»•»♦ Ptw»to bv Gary RkrS*rd*on 


Pacer staff writer Jam-' MiUc makes a face as 
she donates her 45o« J tic Mphu J*!u Omega 
blood drive Tin- drive ;m ■ • 1 by \ Phi O 

service fratermt v w - i> ! ! 1- ebi uar y l in room 
230 of the Urm-i '< help supply 


blood for St Jude's Children's Research 
Ilospiral in Memphis St Jude's, founded by 
actor Danny Thomas, treats children with 
serious and terminal diseases The blood drive 
is February 1 2 from 8 a m to 5 p m 


students were here, that op 
lion was closed 

3 1 Approximately 3500 UTM 
students live on campus or 
within a mile of campus 
Single students living further 
away are allowed to stay with 
friends or rent beds in the 
residence halls 

4) Off-campus night classes 
can make up missed sessions 
by several means, including 
meeting twice a week after 
this clears away 

5) Attendance percentages 
in most classes are reported to 
be about normal 

6) We are meeting the 
Southern Association 
minimum-da ys-insession 
requirement If we dismiss, 
snow days would have to be 
made up after Easter break 
pushing June year-end down 
past mid-June, effecting 
students ability to get summer 
jobs and adversely affecting 
Summer School enrollments 

7» Accidents have been 
minimal under this policy 
l TM's experience in 1964 < the 
last time classes were 
dismissed for snow), DTK's 
experience last winter w hen it 
dismissed, and the experience 
of other institutions, the 
number of broken limbs, auto 
accidents, and even deaths, as 
well as vandalism and 
property damage cases, in 
creases if classes are 
dismissed 

8' Getting an education ought 
to be worth a little extra ef 
fort 

"This policy seems to 
represent the greatest good 
for the greatest number of 
people," McGehee stated 

Single commuting students 
were given the opportunity to 
rent dormitory rooms during 
the bad weather period 
McGehee said there was a 
"good response" to this 
proposal 

McGehee acknow ledged the 
fact that married students 
were the most in 
eonvenienced, although they 


in Miss UTM Pageant 


by St ZANNE \\ ADI FA 
Assistant News Editor 


The 1978 Miss I'TM Pageant 
will bo held February 3 and 4 
at 8:00 p m in the Fine Arts 
Auditorium, according to 
Julie Hagan, coordinator ol 
the pageant 

"The theme of this year's 
contest w ill be * Rhapsody m 
Blue The festivities begin 
with a tea for the 23 con 
testants on Friday at 3 00 p ni 
in the University Center A 
brunch is also scheduled 
Saturday at 11:30 a m at the 
Chancellor’s residence. Patti 
Kirk, secretary of affairs 
stated 

The 23 contestants will lx 
judged on evening gown 
swimsuit, and talent, ac 
cording to Hagan She added 
that the judges will also have .i 
chance to meet and interview 
the contestants 

"On Saturday. 10 finalist 
will be chosen Emphasis will 
be placed on talent presen 
tation although eloquence 
Beauty and the interviews 
with the judges will also te- 
factors in the final decision 
The winner receives a $125 
scholarship and the opprtumty 
to go to the Miss Tennessee 
Pageant The runner up 
receives a $75 scholarship 
The non-finalists in swimsuit 
and talent will also receive 
awards," Hagan explained 

The judges for this year s 
pageant are Robert 

Hollingshead from Brent 
wood. Jim Fom ester 
Jackson. Tommy Quinn. 

Memphis, and Mary Burgess 
Foley from Memphis and a 
former Miss Tennessee, av 
cording to Kaneal Gay judges 
committee 

The talent committee will 


been a factor in this year s 
pageant With the SGA’s 
financial position unstable 
they have strived to trim the 
budget while still maintaining 
a quality production, ac¬ 
cording to Jim Spillman, 
secretary of finance 

There has teen some 
m ^understandings tetween 
the Miss UTM committee and 
the SGA over the budget it's 
origin the price of single 
night tickets, publicity, and 
the advance marking of the 
thetickets according to Hagan 
The budget was prepared 
without any input from me.' 
Hagan stated Jim Spillman 
gave me a budget from a 
previous year that was barely 
legible I asked him to gel it 
typed so that 1 could make 
something out of it teter. 
Patti Kirk' sec ret ay of affairs 
told me that my budget had 
lteen passed by Congress the 
night before I am lucky, 
however, tecause the budget 
is not bad I feel that 1 
should have had a voice in it's 
preparation. Hagan conti¬ 
nued 

"The budget was approved 
without Julie Hagan) It's 
my job to make the budget and 
I didn't confer with Julie 1 
took last year's budget and 
trimmed the exjienses while 
trying to maintain a quality 
production," Spillman stated 

1 understood that the 
single tickets were to bo sold 
tor $5 rather than $4 50 Even 
it tin* committee stays under 
its allotted budget, the SGA 
has still lost approximately 
>4on by this mistake. Hagan 
stated 

‘The single night tickets 
wert budgeted for $5 
.spillman concurred 
However a storv came out 


Hunt, secretary ol com 
mumcations stated 

According to the in 
formation desk The Pacer 
learned the pageant was not 
sold out at that time 

"Because the tickets were 
not marked previous to their 
teing put on sale, thire is a 
possibility that two jieople 
may have a ticket foi the 
same seat, Hagan explained 

I could ha\e marked the 
single night tickets in ad 
vance However, this would 
mean that I would have to 
print tip a ticket tor every seat 
in the house for those two 
nights," Spillman stated 

Usually the single night 
tickets do not sell out 
Therefore, in order to save 
some money I did not mark 
the tickets before they were 
put on sale I did leave 
some instructions at the desk 
lor those responsible lor 
selling the tickets, he added 

I could not have marked 
the $8 tickets because there 
was a possibility that a person 
may not te- able to sit in the 
same seat both nights due to 
someone taking up that seat 
lor one night by the purchase 
of a $4 50 ticket. Spillman 
concluded 

John Bucy added that in 
order to accomodate this 
situation the workers at the 
information desk might have 
to fill in another seat on the $8 
ticket for the night m which 
the desired seat w.i' already 
taken However, this could 
cause a problem with the 
seating if a student decided to 
do this himself Bucy is 
considering selling two single 
$4 50 tickets. marked 
properly, lor $8 to alleviate 
this problem 

Tommv Hunt slated that 


there may te* 4 or 5 people that 
will not have seats due to 
possible mistakes by the 
workers at the desk during the 
rush Friday morning He 
,aided that the seats have teen 
reserved for these students to 
alleviate the problem 

Despite these misun¬ 
derstandings. "the pageant 
will probably make money for 
the SGA and be a quality 
production." Spillman stated 


Everyone on the com¬ 
mittee is under their allotted 
budget and we are tryinig to 
utilize donations as test we 
can." Hagan stated 

The pageant is being held 
earlier than in previous years 
This will allow the winner 
more time to prepare for the 
Miss Tennessee pageant," 
Hagan commented 

"I'm hoping that in the 
future the amount of the 
.scholarships will be raised so 
that there will te* more in¬ 
centive lor the girls to par¬ 
ticipate."Hagan added 

Hagan concluded by 
stating that she's had a very 
helpful committee, and though 
she knew it would te* hard, the 
committee is making it much 
easier 

\ccording to Hagan, 
committee members include: 
John Burch, production 
manager. Elise Neal, 
Entries. Suzanne McCallum. 
booklet Patti Kirk, 
hospitality. Kaneal Gay. 
judges' Tommy Hunt, 

publicity Mary Pat 

Corrigan scholarship 
awards. Jim Spillman, 

I malice. John. r ov covet and 
set design . | nn Barring ton 
technical manager. and l hi is 
McDonald. musical 
arrangement 


Student Union held; 
campus leaders meet 


were making arrangements 
with their teachers 
Ted Council, director of 
Safety and Security, said 
there were no major accidents 
on campus due to the ice and 
snow 

"There have teen a few 
minor bumps and scrapes, hut 
nothing serious," he said 
Council said he felt the 
ground crew* had done a 
tremendous job" on the 
sidewalks and streets 
The University has used its 
entire year's supply of salt, 
and has according to 
McGehee. " gone into the hole 
in order to purchase more 
salt 

McGehee also admitted the 
university needs more 
equipment to deal with the 
snow and ice this area has 
encountered the past two 
years 

"We were fortunate to have 
new lawnmowers this year 
that can te fitted with blades 
to plow the snow," McGehee 
continued "We do need more 
equipment, but it is a matter 
of getting more money 
Sidewalks covered with ice 
presented a problem to 
students getting to classes, 
and McGehee termed the 
walkways "treacherous 
Al least three students have 
broken bones in spills on the 
icy sidewalks, hut McGehee 
said the University was not 
liable for this 


include singing piano 
dramatic readings, dancing 
and gymnastics, according to 
Hagan She added that Joseph 
D Andrea, assistant prolessoi 
of music and director ol bands 
will provide entertainment 
w hen the girls aren't on stage 

"There will lx* two vocals by 
Betty Binkley ami Koala 
Adams The I TM Jazz Lab 
Band will play and v»*n 
triloquist. Danny Countess 
will perform Also, ,i suite ol 
flute and jazz piano will 
be performed by Cynthi.i 
I) Andrea. solo llulc. 
IVAndrea stated 

"Suzie Morns . the reigning 
Miss UTM . will also provide 
entertainment. Hagan stated 
"Suzie will lx* singing 'Don't 
Rain on My Parade' and 
Woman on The Moon 

The annual pageant is 
sponsored by the SGA 
However, other organizations 
on campus have math 
donations to the pageant, 
according t" Mary Pat 
Corrigan, aw ai ds chairman to 
the pageant 

"So far. Pi Kappa Alpha has 
donated the queen's flowers. 
Phi Sigma Kappa and Alpha 
Gamma Rho have donated 
alternate flowers. Mu Epsilon 
Delta and Alpha Phi Omega 
have each donated 20 dollars 
for trophies, and the A Phi o'*, 
always donate the queen's 
rote*." Corrigan stated 

The question of monev has 


in The I’acer stating that they 
would lx* sold for $4 50 I 
believe this story either came 
limn Julie's people or was a 
mistake by Hip Pacer At that 
tunc the tickets had not been 
printed Due to this advance 
publicity | tecUhat it wouldn't 
te- a good idea to change the 
price o! the single night 
tickets I felt that it would te* 
bet let for all concerned to go 
obe.id and sol 1 then for $4 50 
\s for possibleloss of $400. this 
ei.iy be true However. I don't 
feel it would have lx*en fan to 
put the tickets on sale for $5 
when they were publicized as 
tx-mg sold $4 50 The possible 
loss will probably te* made up 
in our advertising I budgeted 
advertising revenue as being 
"illy $ 175 Nancy Martin has 
sold approximately $400 of 
Iverl >n.g \\ <• ha\e also 
^aved $l(Hi on the printing of 
ih< procram by having it done 
here on campus rather than 
ommercially Spillman 
explained 

I saw no signs up about the 
pageant until Thursday af 
ternoon tefore the Friday that 
the tic kets went on sale 1 
feel that there should have 
been more advance 
publicity Hagan com 
mented 

The signs were put up 
Thursday afternoon There 
was r♦•ally no need tor ad 
vance publicity they're 
aln ,id\ sold out." Tommv 


h\ PL \Ms SF III Its 
News Editor 

The first Studc i n.oii Ini 
student leaders m lenr.esMV 
will te* held iamor row amt 
Saturday at l I Knoxville 
"The Studenl t mon is more 
or less a meeting ol student 
leaders from acrn*» tin 
state. Dale Mien. scA 
president said lb* man. 
object is to discuss studenl 
politics in the state ol 1 en 
ilessee and which party lias 
more to of lei the college 
student 

I'his \nai s student l mot. 
will lean ♦ow.uxi tin |x»litn ai 
side. »< -ording t • Idnum 
Hunt, secretar y of » om 
.numcatn r.s "There will lx* a 
debate about the usefulness ol 
tin* two party system 
The Republican guest 
speaker will !x Represen 
tative Keith Bissell The 
Deimxralu sjx'.ikei will lx' 
lorn Beasley st.pe 

Republican I’arty Cli.urmai 
There will also te panel 
discussions on the lutui • ol the 
student government students 
rights, student governments 
i ommon piohlems. campus 
alcohol policies and student 


lobbying Dale Allen will te‘ 
inv olv ed w ith program 
presentation at one of the 
meetings AI! these events w ill 


■ »CCUl 

Saturdav Also, at noon 

ot that day there will te a 

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luncheon tor students 

only, featuring state Senator 

\una 

Belle Clement O'Brien 

,i' the 

key note speaker 

Saturday evening there will 

be .1 

debate between Rep 

hhcan 

V ictoi Ashe and House 

ma p>r 

itv leader Tommy 

Bur m 

tt Chris Clark of 

Channel < Nashville will te the 

•|X*CI, 

1 guest model ator 

Check it out 


Increase of average 

grades discussed 


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SG \ concert poll 

results tallied 


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S3500 too expensive ? 


| The SGA s decision to spend some $3,500 on 
ithg upcoming Mia* l TM pageant can only be 
•crfcirkrod extremely risky, especially in view 

• orfwie fact that the SGA only has approxiniateh 
: $l£00 left in Us budget for the remainder of this 

•' Jhile it is true that the SGA, like many 
! bjbnesses. must sometimes gamble in order to 
•nef a profit, the fact remains that thus far this 
jyq)r the SGA has managed to lose around 
:$ljLooo on such speculation. Obviously, many 
*ti0es the SGA’s expectations have not 

* mj^erialued, and consequently the SGA's 
: budget for the 1977 78 school year has been 
•reduced greatly The point is basically this 

j h£h can the SGA be so sure of the Miss UTM 
:p<Beant making money when they have been 
in many cases thus far this year*' A 
J monetary limit should be imposed on the ex 
: pun ctures of the SGA so as to guard against the 
; kjjfci of losses which have been so charac 
t teldstic of the Allen administration Preferably 
; such a limit should be self-imposed by the SGA 
[ to£ insure against future economic 
j exstrophies 

: 5ulie Hagan, the coordinator of the Miss 
*\UfM pageant, has stated that the SGA is 
-pfenning on making a profit of roughly $1,000 on 
;ihe event In order to accomplish this, ticket 
Jprices have been increased slightly In 
"previous years, however, the Miss UTM contest 
Jybas only broke even, so it is questionable as to 

f whether the increase in ticket price will be 
-enough to offset a poor turnout While the idea 
a* raising ticket prices slightly to allow for a 
r^)oor student response is essentially a good 
^safeguard, it is doubtful that the safeguard w ill 


be enough to offset a substantial lack c. .nterest 
•should it occur 

Maybe if the SGA were to devote less expense 
to the glamour of the contest and more to the 
other aspects of the event, they would not have 
to work so much on speculation If a girl is truly 
beautiful and talented, those qualities willcome 
across regardless of environmental setting 
This not to say that the SGA should totally 
disregard the pomp and grandeur that the Miss 
UTM pageant deserves. onl> that some 
modifications should lie made in order to 
compensate for the present economic situation 
of the SGA 

Economically there are three possible 
outcomes of the Miss UTM pageant First, the 
SGA could actually fulfill its expectations and 
net a profit of approximately $1,000 on the 
venture Secondly the SGA could break even 
on the contest which would leave it dependent 
upon the $2,000 that it plans to make on its other 
business v entures throughout the remainder of 
this year Thirdly, the SGA could net a loss on 
the Miss UTM pageant If this were to happen, 
the SGA would really be forced to speculate on 
future events, such as concerts and other 
recreational activities For this reason, the 
student body is strongly urged to support the 
Miss UTM pageant The future of en 
tertainment at UTM for the rest of this year 
could depend on how well the contest does 

(’an the SGA really afford to allot $3,500 for 
this Miss UTM pageant 0 Surely there are ways 
of reducing this figure without affecting the 
present set up of the contest to a significant 
degree It is true that “the show must go on" -- 
but at what cost 0 


Congressional ratification 
purged for tax credit bill 


? U.S Bill S 311, which will give tax credit to 
■jmddle income families who have students in 
junior colleges, colleges, and other post 
Secondary schools, is one which the Congress 
•Jhould pass if at all possible 
f The bill was introduced in the Congress last 
:year by Senator William Roth of Delaware and 
/Juts already attained Senate ratification. It is 
mow before the House where it is expected to be 
•jatified despite opposition by House W ays and 
r&leans Committee chairman A1 Ullman of 
'^Oregon As it is presently worded,the bill will 

S ive families tax credit for tuition, books, and 
ther educ^rfipfia^" onente<^ expenses 
amilies woulareceive up tott5b the first year 
p300 the second year, $400 the third year, and 
r*500 the fourth year It should be noted that in 
an arrangement, the financial assistance 
.£098 directly to the family of the student rather 
Jhan being channelled through the university 
financial aid offered through the particular 
J)ollege or university is often somewhat difficult 
:to attain. Complicated forms must be filled 
ijut, and deadlines must be met And even then. 
•if. is not assured that the student will receive the 
financial assistance that he may need to 
•adequately meet his college expenses. By 
giving direct tax credit, the money would be 
pratically guaranteed as well as being fairly 
^asy to get 

V The tuition credit bill, when signed into law 
the President, could also have a very 
•beneficial side effect on the nation’s colleges 
/knd universities For the last few years, there 
’•has been a downward trend in the number of 


high school graduates who opt for a college 
education after completing high school 
Although the reasons for this are many and 
varied, one of the more significant reasons 
c ould be that the money just is not available for 
many students fo use in the pursuit of post 
secondary education For the students who are 
not planning to go to college because of their 
financial insecurity, the new tax credit bill 
could be the answer to their problem This is 
not to say. however, that the financial 
assistance available through the new bill will 
pay all of their college expenses, but that it 
should help out greatly 

Also, when the new bill is finally ratified a/id 
signed into law.it should not be used by the 
colleges and universities as an excuse for 
reducing other forms of financial aid. Many 
students need all the financial assistance they 
can get in order to attend college If student 
financial aid funds are reduced in a "zero- 
sum" trade off. whereby the total amount of 
federal financial aid remains the same, then 
the Congress is wasting its time on the tax 
credit bill The present financial aid programs 
should not be* affected by the new bill. 

The new bill could also benefit students who 
are not in need of financial assistance By 
making it possible for more students to attend 
college, the colleges and universities will have 
more revenue coming in.and thus will not have 
to increase their tuition nearly as much as they 
would otherwise This is just another reason 
why the new tax credit bill should be ratified 
into law as soon as possible 


Entertainment available 


.: A general complaint among students at UTM 
;fs that there is nothing worthwile to do - not 
»nly on weekends, but throughout the rest of the 
:week as well 

; The case may well be that there are plenty of 
wholesome recreational activities available to 
■students at UTM, but that many students do not 
•^ake the time to attend these events The 
Reasons usually given for nonparticipation in 
Uhese activities include not being aware of a 
pertain event which has been scheduled, and 
-prejudging an activity to be unfulfilling and 
;%ius making no effort to attend it Whichever 
case may be, the student body at UTM 
/Should realize that any enjoyment derived from 
U particular event is directly proportional to 
:fhe amount of enthusiasm put into the event If 
;•¥* students at UTM would only look around 
rand take note of the many events at their 
'.disposal each week, then maybe they would 
:(realize that there really are things worthwhile 
;to do at UTM 

V Each Sunday the SGA.m conjunction with 
’the University Center, provides the student 
{body at UT Martin with high-quality recreation 
*jn the form ot excellent motion pictures The 
".films presented by the SGA are normally of a 
.'high caliber, and the fact that many students 
•attend these films attests to this fact In ad 
,'ilition to the movies offered by the SGA. the 


communications departmen! presents classical 
films for student viewing each Thursday and 
Friday nighl. Also the University Center is 
presenting the Silver Screen Classics during 
Winter Quarter This is a special series which 
will run through Winter Quarter, and including 
in its lineup the most popular motion picture of 
all time ‘Gone with the Wind." 

For the athletically inclined, there are 
always two or three sports events scheduled 
each week During Winter Quarter, the major 
sports events are basketball games with a few 
basketballgames scheduled for the later part of 
the quarter Various intramural activities have 
also been planned allowing for student par 
ticipation on a somewhat larger and less 
professional scale Also the P E 
Complex is available most of the time for the 
student body's personal use 

The aforementioned recreational events 
represent only a small percentage of the ac 
tmties offered to the students of UTM There 
are many other wholesome activities available 
for the student body at UTM. but time and 
space limitations do not permit a detailed list of 
those events. If the student body would only 
take the time to educate itself to the many 
activities available for their personal en 
joyment, then perhaps less people would say 








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Sporti Editor 

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Editorial Page Editor H 

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of happiness 

To the Editor: 

After a brief reprieve, I 
return to a college campus 
Once again I begin the pursuit 
of "higher learning,” the 
almost imperceptible light at 
the end of the tunnel (the oft- 
times pursuit of my tail). 
Again I sit in half-filled 
classrooms, before prophets 
crying of "superfluous" 
electrons (an S electron in the 
third shell?) and the depths to 
which English usage has 
fallen. At night I return to my 
dim drafty cell, praying I will 
not fall asleep until I have 
drummed into my head the 
required words of Calvin. On 
weekends I find myself in the 
hot, smoky bars on Church 
Street, volleying enlighted 
barrom-bullshit on my 
drunken victim. 

Somewhere in Bermuda 
awaits a deserted beach, a 
turquoise sea, a gentle sun. 


Florence fade and crumble A 

young, New York en¬ 
trepreneur, never having 
struggled through a Proust 
novel, succeeds In m a kin g hit 

first million. A farmer in town 
worries about harsh, winter'i 
effect on neat summer's 
soybean crop. Which brings 
me beck to Luther’s apple 
tree I have a primitive 
surmise about nature far 
Nature, if you deeire). It 
begins with Luther's theory 
about the good tree. I go 
further: no man equipped with 
a book of laws and statues can 
tell a bad tree how to bear 
apples, but he might give the 
tree incentive to pass off the 
thorns it has borne as appias. 

I have returned to collage. 
If I were not here I would 
probably be waiting tables at 
a pizzeria or wiping the nose of 
my second child. If that is life 
on Earth—Institution* of 
Higher Learning, open your 
pearly gates! 

Dianne L. Dickey 


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A fool and his money 


Words of Wisdom 

“But godliness with con¬ 
tentment is great gain For we 
brought nothing into this 
world, and it is certain we can 
carry nothing out And having 
food and raiment let us: be 
therewith content. But they 
that will be rich fall jnto 
temptation and a snare, and 
into many foolish and hurtful 
lusts, which drown men in 
destruction and perdition. For 
the love of money is the root of 
all evil: which while some 
have coveted after, they have 
erred from the faith, and 
pierced themselves through 
with many sorrows.” (1 
Timothy 6:6-10) 

Money is something we 
cannot do without, yet it is 
something that does cause 
sorrows Someone has said, 
A fool and his money are 
welcome everywhere " Of 
course, a fool will not have his 
money for very long 

Most people are living 
beyond their means today 
The debt of private citizens in 
the United States alone is now 
more than the combined 
private debt of mankind 
throughout history Paul said, 
“Owe no man anything, but to 
love one another; for he that 
loveth another hath fulfilled 
the law " (Romans 13:8) 
When we borrow money, we 
do not “owe" until the time 
comes to meet the obligation. 
A great number of Christians 
have obligations they cannot 
meet; they have purchased 


luxuries they could not afford. 
This has brought sorrow 
rather than happiness 
Somehow we need to recreate 
the spirit of Calvin Coolidge 
when he said, “When you talk 
about education, do not ask 
what the student has learned, 
but what he has become...I 
would advise, Use it up, wear 
it out, make it do, do without.” 

Few of us have learned the 
art of doing without; 
therefore, we spend more than 
we make. Credit is so easy to 
come by that most people 
cannot resist it. Debt is like a 
warm bed on a cold night- 
easy to get into, hard to get out 
of I can never understand 
why people spend money they 
don't have, to buy things they 
don't need, to impress folks 
they don't like Facing bill 
collectors with an empty hand 
has destroyed more 
marriages than most realize. 


by Bobby Key 

It has broken the spirit of 
many promising young men 
and women 

When we learn to be good 
stewards of the material 
things God has placed at our 
disposal we will have happier 
homes and happier lives. 
Money is a good servant, but a 
poor master. Let us learn the 
fine art of moderation and 
restraint. It la easier to spend 
money than to make it. Don't 
allow yourself to become 
enslaved to excessive spen¬ 
ding and debt. A wise man 
once said, "Give ten percent, 
save ten percent, and spend 
the rest with thanksgiving and 
praise!" Just keep saying to 
yourself, "I can learn to do 
without it, and I won't buy it 
until I have the money to pay 
for it." With fewer debts you 
will be a happier person and 
more profitable servant of 
God. 


Friends of gold 
Precious values increase 
We grow old, but 
Happy memories never cease 

So many autos 
On the street 
Seems now we 
Seldom use our feet 

Very determined 
Young man' 

Along with a goal 
He has a plan 

Things will happen 
So don’t rush the pace 
Move too fast 
Lost in the race 

Hoping for crushing 
Winter to break 
No much more 
Can we take 

Entered a new town 
Busy people on the job 
Leaders who wear the crown 
Once too started as a cog 

Paroxysms of laughter 
Study with eyes 
Some are concealing 
Violent cries 

Hard to tell 
Longitude of latitude 
When so concerned 
Over attitude 

Seems many pairs 
Don't belong 
Both listening to 
A different song 

Rolling wheels in 
The night 

Once were few and 
Families held tight 


Judgement made from 
Observation 
Better than from 
Conversation 

First to lend 
Their ear 
Sometimes last 
To hear 

Seems some who 
Conduct pow-wow 
Don’t always 
Possess know-how 

So much better 
World it would be 
If we all weren’t 
So concerned for me 

Can even have 
Rebelling 
When no one is 
Telling 

Keep yourself 

In tune iii.-aA 

Good times will 
Come soon 

Even with status 
As a superstar 
Other achievements 
Remain below par 

Some will smile 
In your face 
But turn your 
Head and they debase 

Required assignments 
Fall by the side 
Lack of feeling 
Deep inside 

To some; time 

Crawls it seems 

Caused by broken promises 

And unfulfilled dreams 


Why can’t we just be friends ? 


Essay 

Yankee, it's a term most 
people are well acquainted 
with and one that most people 
misuse A Yankee is either 
any person from the USA or a 
person that is a native of or an 
inhabitant of those states 
above the Mason-Dixon line 
that fought for the Union 


during the war between the 
states 

In this section of the 
country, tempers run high 
when that word it mentioned; 
there seems to be a sense of 
malcontent present in the air 
when a person that does not 


have an accepted drawl 

speaks. The American Civil 
War ended officially in April 
of 1865, why does the 
beligerance of North vs. South 

still remain. Why are people 
still fighting battles for a war 
that ended almost 113 years 


Priest relates ‘coming of age’ 


Guest Column 

I've always been interested 
in 21st birthday parties In 
Australia, as in America, we 
usually celebrate a coming of 
age with a party thrown by the 
new adult's family or close 
friends Now-a days, of 
course, people ripen at the 
much earlier age of 18, but in 
my day it was 21. And guess 
when 1 turned 21? Good 
Friday, 1963 In a catholic 
seminary in those days we 
didn't throw many parties on 
Good Friday, so my 
celebration was postponed till 
a more opportune date And 
I'm still waiting 

For this reason, I guess. I’ve 
always been attracted by the 
Japanese custom of 
celebrating coming of age 
They have the family party 
too, but they also have a 
second party hosted by their 
larger family, their civic 
community, be it university, 
company, town or city. I was 
reminded of this civic event on 
January 15th., the day Japan 
sets aside as a public holiday 
to welcome into adulthood all 
who turned 20 in the past 


twelve month*. The parties 
that are held are not quite the 
“beer bash "we associate with 
coming the age parties The 
ones I particularly like are 
those held in the Town or City 
Hall and hosted by the Mayor 
and civic leaders It’s mid¬ 
winter in Japan and so it is 
usually ideal weather for the 
Kimono. The streets, usually 
so dull and grey at this time of 
year, are suddenly Tilled with 
color as the girls in their 
Kimonos make their way to 
the Hall They look so petite 
Eyes cast down as though lost 
in meditation on the great 
event that has happened in 
their lives, walking with the 
short, almost tip toe gait 
demanded by the tight fitting 
Kimono Most of the boys will 
wear their best suit, their 
locks that flew so free during 
school days now trimmed and 
neat to match their new 
character of serious 
businessman A few will wear 
the traditional male dress 
which seems so incomplete 
without the sword that once 
was the man’s pride. 


In the City Hall they Tile into 
rows of seats, where they will 
listen to the words of the 
Mayor and civic leaders 
Words ot welcome to the world 
of the adult Words of 
congratulations for having 
achieved that completion that 
their word 'seijin" implies. 
They are reminded of their 
responsibilities as adults. The 
greater emphasis, however, is 
on the joy of the local com¬ 
munity as it welcomes these 
new partners in the task of 
building up the community. 
Yet ail is not on the heavy 
side. After the speeches there 
is the relaxed atmosphere of 
the simple party. As the young 
people are now of age to drink 
alcoholic beverages, these and 
others are served with cakes 
and cookies, slices of raw fish 
and seaweed, fruit and nuts 

In Nagoya City, where I 
worked as a missionary, there 
was one place on the afternoon 
of this day where I always 
tried to be. It waa the Urge 
concourse of one of the ex¬ 
tensive underground, with 


by Mick Cantwell 

their ships, restaurants, 
coffee shops, bars, and even 
movie theatres. In the center 
of the concourse I speak of, 
there was a large fountain 
made of glass, and this had 
become the favorite meeting 
place of the Nagoyanians. 
Underneath it two subway 
lines cross. Above it is the 
terminal of most of the bus 
lines. On the 15th of January 
this area around the glass 
fountain becomes a blaze of 
color and a fashion parade of 
Kimonos. All the young people 
who have been to the various 
seijin ceremonies in the city 
usually arrange to meet "at 
the glass fountain.” The girls 
sometimes two or three rows 
deep, line the surrounding 
walls, eyes cast down, waiting 
for Kentaro to find them. The 
boys, necks stretched to the 
limit, struggle through a sea 
of black heads and the 
mingling throng of passing 
shoppers to find Mari chan. 

The first lesson in the new 
world of adults. They are not 
the only couple at the glass 
fountain 


by Liz Hicks 

ago It is incomprehensible to 
many why this seperation still 
exists, would those people that 
are so anti-one another really 
wish to live in a country 
separate in identity from the 
one in which they now reside? 

Being raised in an “army 
town" seems to erase this kind 
of prejudice and seems to 
promote an undivided nation 
of people. Rarely is any fuss 
made over how a person 
speaks or where he or she is 
from. Perhaps it is because 
you are thrown together for a 
few years and uprooted and 
sent to another area far dif¬ 
ferent than the last. Friends 
are either made easily or not 
at all 

When Americans are 
traveling or living abroad and 
encounter one another, they 
don’t bother finding out where 
the other is from firat, they 
are Americans foremost and 
that is all that matters. Why 
can't it be that way all the 
time? People should be judged 
on the basis of individual 
merit instead of their accent. 

Perhaps itis just a matter of 
being open-minded and ac¬ 
cepting people as they are, 
rather than being bull-headed 
and not accepting them at all 
because they sound “funny” 
when they talk. 

Although it would probably 
take a miracle, it would be 
magnificent if, at least in this 
country, all men could be 
brothers. 










Peace through Christ 


Moral Madness 

Peace - we talk about it, we which was that waa that each 
write about it, we negotiate tar person should die la himself 
It, we even fight for it. The <tatly.(He stood behind what 
quest for peace in the world he said!) Another idea waa 
has lately been the most that if you're looking out for 
talked about topic in world yourself, you'll lose your life, 
affairs. Most of us want it - but if you give up your life for 
both at home and abroad, what he stands tor, you’ll find 
Ideally, we would want our it Still another idea he had 
nation to be strong enough to was that in order to really 

"insure the domestic understand what he was 

tranquility." in a world where taking about, you had to 
nations are at least co- become like a little child. How 
operating with one another, simple can you gat? 

A few years ago. "peace fn case you haven't figured 
with honor" was the catch it out by now, the "in¬ 
phrase, the hope that so many dividual’s" »r». is Jesus 

clung to. Now, after a lot more Christ, and Hia ideas have 
rhetoric and the efforts of two indeed shaken the world He 


by John Zilinsky 

If we ignore Him, we're 
doomed to trudge on through 
another fifty years or so just 


Critics Corner by Dan Webb 

When It come to the selling as a method of developing can't help but grab your heart 
of dreams, 1977 was one of the several languages of his own If The Lard of the Rings broke 
■ invention. He believed that to your heart, this one will bum 
do this he would have to create the organ to cinders, 
an entirely new hlstory and The book does have it's 
“?»• '** u WOrld ^f d I U l US faults, one of which is the 

Middle-earth was born, Later author's preoccupation with 
Tolkien stopped work on the oenwiIrvov Fnr exlmnle we 
are^old^of three'main'groups 
Hobbit and The Lord of the of the elves, the chief of which 
Rings upon the history. are ^ Noldor The head of 
Writing these other books the NoWor ia nnwe Finwe 
occupied almost twenty years ha5 three aon9 Fean or, 
of the mans life, and even F i ngo lfin, and Finarfin. 
after publication the notoriety Feanor has seven sons, all of 
brought to him ate up his time whom are named. Fingolfin 
and his inclination to write, has three sons and two 
But Tolkien pressed slowly on, daughters all of whom are 
working on The Silmarillion named. Finarfin has four sons 
until his death in 1973. His son, and one daughter, all of whom 
Christopher Tolkien, took his are named. After that it gets 
father’s notes, organized them confusing. Every character 
and finished off a few and place in the book has at 
neglected chapters. least two different names. 

The result is the single best s ° me . hav ® more 0ne 
book I have read in a ctniple of chnracter had so man y names 

years Friends of Frodo will <five > •« heered when 
not be dissapointed. Tolkien was k,lled off 
takes us back to the times But don’t worry. There is an 
prior to the events told in The index of names in the back 
Hobbit and The Lord of the that can keep you 
Rings. We learn of the early straightened out, and there 
history of the Valar, the Elves, are several maps that also 
Dwarves, and Men. We also help, 
learn of the early days of unwiw,, 

Morgoth and his chief officer , 0 Midd | c . earth or visiting 

aauron the first itme, I think you will 

The book is written in a have a lot of surprises. Bet you 
grand style and sweeping didn’t know Middle-earth used 
generalized statements that to be flat, did you now? 


The field of epic and heroic 
fantasy grasped attention and 
held firm to it's grip the length 
of the entire year. We saw 
Terry Brooks well-heralded 
Sword of Shannon turn into a 
well-intentioned rip-off of 
Lard of the Rings. We saw the 
works of Robert E. Howard 
emerge into the light of day 
again, with volumes of his 
pulp material being vomited 
forth by the presses of Berkley 
Medallion, Ace, and Zebra 
books. We saw a re-issuing of 
E. R. Eddison's the Worm 
Ouroborss. one of the most 
influentual fantasy novels of 
all time. A sixth volume of 
Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and the 
Grey Mouserstales issued 
forth this summer, along with 
the majority of the novels in 
Michael Moorcock’s eternal 
champion cycle. But by far the 
most important and far 
reaching event to come to pass 
this year was the publication 
of J. R. R. Tolien’s The 
Silmarillion. 

There are people who have 
been waiting literally years 
for this book, and I don’t think 
they will be dissapointed. The 
Silmarillion was first con¬ 
ceived of by the author in 1917 


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Why? Wouldn't it be much the world (and even us!) that 
easier if we all worked many people have been 
together to build the “best of staking their lives on for many 
all possible worlds," to have a centuries now to this day. 
"brotherhood of man" instead g* ^ (unny Mrt abou , 
of the civil and global turmoil c^t’sideaT is not their 

he Tan vn. ^though that in 

Sure it would be. Can wu ltle f f ^ apart frool 

imagine how much richer other men’s ideas) nor is it the 
each nation would be if it cut demand) that they m.h« upon 
>t* defense budget in two? ^ Hvea Thefunny port 
How many starving people about Hil ideaJ ,, t^t He 
would that feed, or how many ^dn’t give them as mere 
hospitals would that build? It guggertfons He also didi’t 
makes simple common sense givt „ ^ u gutdriinee to 
to join together to eliminate . ,,,, . ... 

the problems common to all 

And so we’ve been trying to g Jg 

do. A little But each year, JJ*’* 1 g 

defense budgets rise while them “ comn '» D ®»- 
firm hopes for a real, lasting That’s the reason why you 
peace plummet. New dif- can’t play around with what 
ferences within and between he has to say. You either 
nations crop up and become believe it, or you don’t, you 
more defined while un- either live it, or your don’t, 
derstanding wavers and The end purpose of what He’s 
becomes more blurred. It talking about is not to get a 
appears that a new approach free ticket to ride the clouds 
is needed, a fresh idea, f or eternity, but to be free - 
something simpler than the f ro m all the things that 

complex talks and treaties make u, e a chore and free to 
that we’re turning out now. f ace U p to who you really are 

Here is a suggestion. It an d what you're really like 
starts with us^Let’s not ingide And what . ( more , 

we’re mjt willing to do om- ™ 

have*peace* o? Sfnd a^d U b ** t ** 

we’re not willing to make Jesus said. ’My peace I give 
peace with the people with to you, net as the werM gives, 

whom we come into contact, do I give to you/’ Peace to us 

we can’t expect the rest of the is an absence of wars m the 
Woa'ld to do the same, either, world, or maybe the absence 
There’s no way the world is of personal problems and 
going to change as long as we conflicts in Ota own lives. Bu 
ourselves choose to remain Jews’ peace is something real 
fixed in our own selfishness and tangible -and you possess 
and pride it even ln toe midst of utter 

Sd now what? Most people turmoil. 

‘Want to know What they can ' ” If we trust ln him, He will 
get from life - whether it’s pack our lives with all of the 

money, prestige, or Just plain life that they could possibly 

ole happiness. Which brings us hold. 

revolutionary ideas P of a rather 
unique individual. 

His ideas aren't all that new. 

As a matter of fact, they’ve 
been talked about, written 
about, and argued about for 
quite a while now. An they’re 
not at all difficult to un¬ 
derstand, they’re just difficult 
to live out. 

But that’s part of the deal. 

You see, this man was 
executed for his ideas, one of 


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Time to get involved 

by Fred Maxwell 


Maxwell’s Musings 

I’m glad that it’s Black 
History Week again. Here at 
last is the week that the nation 
allows its black members to 
sing and tell the story of their 
contributions of the great 
American past. And, because 
that past has been denied so 
long to the nations - and the 
world by the majority of white 
America, that’s good. 

But it makes me feel sort of 
sad and mad at the same time. 

I feel mad because unless 
the BSA or some black greek 
organization sponsors an 
event, the black perspective is 
all but forgotten. This creates 
alienated students. Sure, 
black students probably don’t 
make up more than 30 percent 
of the student body, but it 
seems unfair that they should 
be forgotten when there are 
events. I have heard it said 
time and again by black 
students that they cannot 
relate to University activities 
because, in reality, the ac¬ 
tivities are geared to whites. 

I also feel mad because 
there are some black folks 
who simply will not attempt to 
crash through barriers that 
they themselves errect. There 
are no all-white or all-blacks 
organizations on campus. 
What there is are 

organizations inside which 
either blacks or whites will not 
feel comfortable because 
they’re thrown together in 
closer proximity than what 
seems normal. But how can 
togetherness seem normal 
when we were all thrown out 
In the same world the day we 
were all born? 

I feel sad because I know in 
my heart of hearts, that the 
great majority of both whites 
and blacks will simply not see 
things the way I do. It's easy 
to just take the Beatles advice 
and "Let it be." That way, 
there’s no conflict, no grap¬ 
pling with the honest feelings, 
no worrying about whether 
your colleagues are shy or just 
prejudiced. No need to worry 
about how your colleagues will 
respond if you did or said 
something that has never been 
done or said before. It’s too 
easy to simply let it be. 


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The Pacer. Martin. TeaneMee. Thursday. February tan 


Black Week planned; 
lawmaker to speak 


Survey gauges response; 
student’s top choice ‘KC 


the listers of Delta Sigma 
Theta The dance will be semi 
formal and features the group 
The Exotic Movement 
Tickets are expected to sell for 
(2 SO for singles, and *4 50 for 
couples, according to Barbara 
Mitchell, sorority member 

“We don't make any mooey 
off dances when we have a 
band The band costs about 
three or four hundred dollars, 
and you have to pay the band 
with what you get." Mitchell 
said. - 

The play. "Pages of the 
Past" is "coming along fine.’' 
according to Arnold Peterson, 
one of the cast members. 

The play will mostly be a 
musical look at Black History 
It was written by Daryl 
Simmons, and BSA president 
Martin Other members of the 
BSA feel pretty good about it. 

Tickets have not yet gone on 
sale, and nobody is predicting 
if it will be a sellout when they 
do 

There will also be a church 
service that Sunday with 
Martin in the pulpit. It is not 
known yet what topic he will 
speak on. but common themes 
for such service include the 
brotherhood of man. and the 
need for unity both among 
blacks and the rest of the 
world. 


Bv FRED MAXWELL 


The first black woman ever 
elected to the Tennessee 
House of Representatives. 
Lois DeBerry, is expected to 
speak here Wednesday 
evening February IS. ac¬ 
cording to the president of the 
Black Students" Association. 
Elmer S Martin 
Martin explained that final 

S ans to have the native 
erophis lawmaker come to 
Martin have not yet been 
worked out, but feels that by 
next week things will be nailed 
down tighter 

DeBerry, besides being the 
first black woman elected to 
the state House. is also the 
first woman elected to head 
the Shelby County Democratic 
Caucus. She was elected to 
that post by fellow Democrats 
in 1974-7S. 

DeBerry, a graduate of 
LemoyneOwen, from which 
she holds a BA. is active in the 
Civil Rights movement She is 
a member of the local NAACP 
and People United to Save 
Humanity (PUSH) She was 
also the Tri-State Woman of 
the Year in 1872-73. 

Other events are expected to 
take place during Black 
History Week, but the first 


Gritty Dirt Band, K.C. and “These groups were 
The Sunshine Band, Con- mentioned to us by the 
funkshun, Pierce Arrow, and promoter as groups he can 
Gary Wright bring." Hunt said 

Russian tour slated 
for upcoming break 

no credit for the tour 

Those leaving Martin will 
then fly to New York and 
proceed east to Helsinki, 
Finland where they will board 
a plane for Moscow Finair, 
the Finnish national airline is 
the prime carrier. 

While in Moscow, touring 
students will see such sights 
as the Kremlin Red Square. 
Lennin s tomb, and several 
churches built in ancient 
Moscow 

There are a few problems 
with student tours. Hunt in¬ 
dicated. He said that he'd 
heard that many student tours 
had been a rippoff 

Another hassle is that a 
thousand dollars is a lot of 
money for many students to 
talk their Darents out of 

“I called the Better 
Business Bureau, and they 
told me that they had no 
complaints about this tour," 
Hunt elaborated 
And. for one prospective 
tourist, there is a special 
hassle Ted Mosch expressed 
interest in going But Moseh, 
who teaches Political Science 
here, holds the rank of Major 
in the United States Army 
Special Forces He has to 
have a special clearance from 
the army. 


"K C. and The Sunshine 
Band came in first, of cour¬ 
se,*’ he stated. '‘Confunkahun 
waa second. Gary Wright 
came in third; Black Oak 
Arkansas I was fourth and 
Little River Band was fifth. 
They all got over too 
votes " 

"Everyone on the ballot 
except K C and The Sunshine 
Hand was in our price range 
without any problem They 
i K.C and The Sunshine Band) 
cost (16,000.” he explained. 
"All the others were $8,000 and 
down and are available right 


Hunt explained that 
although there is a rumor that 
K. C. and The Sunshine Band 
may decrease their per¬ 
formance fee, the main reason 
the group was put on the ballot 
was to guage the response of 
the other groups 

Marshall Carter, from 
Huntingdon, is the promoter 
SGA has been mainly dealing 
with, but other promoters 
may be used in the future. 
Hunt continued Carter is 
promoting the Battle of the 
Bands, concert that is coming 
up. he added 

SGA will not be in a position 
to stage a concert where they 
lose money unless their 
financial position changes 
before the end of this quarter. 
Hunt concluded. 


».m TOM sv Gary 

In search of grass 

Ramona Turner and Lyn Williams discover that grass still 
exist despite two weeks of heavy winter weather Tem¬ 
peratures have been up into the teens to high twenties and 
there has been little sleet or snowstorms, bringing some 
semblence of normality to UTM. 


Alarm inoperable 

Dorm fire 


Salni John’s Church 
Episcopal 

eb. 8. 12 noon and 7:30 p.m 

Holy Communion Meditations 
Led by sister Marcella Hess 
of the interfaith Center 


A new system was then 
adopted with master controls 
at the front desk This was 
brought about chiefly 
because it was learned that 
the old alarm system had been 
tampered with by a student 
who had crossed a couple 
wire, rendering Austin Peay a 
virtual deathtrap should a fire 
break out 


was made to manually ac- failed to operate - because 
tivate the sprinkler system, nobody had called main- 
“The trash piled in there tenance to replace the fuse 
prevented manual activiation and head 
of the sprinkler," Council Austin Peay also had 
explained. trouble with the fire alarm 

"Somewhere along the line system during the Monday 
there had been a fire that blaze - it didn't work - 
hadn’t been reported." Will nobody knows why at this 
Dickerson, chief of main- time. The history of fire alarm 
tenance, said. He indicated trouble goes back to 1975 when 
that this was the reason that too many students were 
the Austin Peay sprinkler pulling too many false alarms. In addition to the fire alarm 

and sprinkler trouble, there 
a. has always been the boiler 
' ^ room The trouble with that is 

that it’s right next to the trash 
Ballroom uc room. Should a dorm’s boiler 

Room 230 uc room catch fire in either 

wn aofwSl »S uc Austin Pea y- Ellington, 

Ballroom uc McCord, or G-H residence 

" T ' 10 Ri»m»auc hal,s would Set the Trash 

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Room 307 uc f our d orms have boiler rooms 

situated near the trash rooms. 
Room too uc Clement and Atrium do not. 

KOOfT) 207 UC 
Ballroom UC 
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Ballroom UC „ , 

Talking about fire hazards 
Room 30a uc brought a tone of disgust to the 
:anor-a Raaidanca voice of Martin Fire Chief W 
D. Williams, who said he 
Ballroom uc personally witnessed four or 
Fiaidhoosa }j ve f, r e notices which were 

taped to Austin Peay walls 

Room 3oa uc burnt off. 

"Some people are just 

.. sick." he concluded. 

As if fired up campus 
dwellers aren’t enough of a 
problem, another type of 
problem is also sweeping 
campus 

"Students are discharging 
fire extinguishers, and in 
University Courts, they are 
even stealing our ex¬ 
tinguishers,” Ted Council, of 
Safety and Security, said. 

Council’s key concern was 
that vandalized extinguishers 
could pose a danger to life as 
there would not be sufficient 
chemical material inside 
them to put out a fire before 
somone became overcome by 
smoke Council said of the 
Austin Peay blaze that the 
place was "smoked out.” 


Pacer 

reception 

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The Pacer will hold a he got up > n time to smell the 
reception for new staff writers smoke from the 6:30 a.m. 
February 9, at 5 p.m. in room blaze. Beasley said he thought 
263, The Pacer office somebody was pulling a prrnk 

“This reception is for when he firs ‘ smelled the 
anyone who would like to work smoke, but found it was for 
with The Pacer in any way at rea * tie notified the head 
all," Suzanne McCarthy, resident and called Safety and 
editor, explained “We need Security about evacuating the 
writers of all kinds - news, building. The entire wing was 
features, and sports -- as well tilled with smoke 
as cartoonists,photographers, Beasly remarked that it was 
people interested in ad- ironic in that the last meeting 
vertising and layouts.” of the Austin Peay resident 

Several editorial positions assistants they were 
are open now or will be open discussing plans for a- fire 
by the end of the quarter, drill, but called it off due to 
according to McCarthy. cold weather and a lack of 

"We are looking for anyone student interest 
interested in putting their Ted Council, Director of 
time into a top-rated paper,” Safety and Security, explained 
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of the positions carry a linked to a fuse type ap- 
stipend, but we need people peratus. When the fuse 
who are willing to work.” reached a critical tem- 
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students to attend, and see water gushes forth This time, 
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percent of the student body 
made A's and B's. 

These statistics reveal a 
national trend of increasing 
average grades for nearly all 
schools in the nation. But, 
there is a disturbing paradox. 
While average grades have 
been rising, SAT and ACT test 
scores have been falling. 

This paradox has become a 


cording to the standard set up There can be no question that 
in the particular field. higher education in those days 

One instructor of a highly prevented bright but poor 
technical field stated that" students from achieving their 
students in his class“earned" potential. However, has the 
their grades, none were pendulum swung too far? 
"given." “We have built an 

"My standards for an "A” educational empire designed 
are the same as the standards so that all who desire may go 
for the field which have fallen to college," stated one 
considerably over the years,” professor who asked to remain 
he stated. anonymous. “And now that 


in grade inflation stems from 
the first. Before, a college 
degree was practically a 
guarantee of a job. Now, 
people find themselves having 
to do additional post-graduate 
work in order to find work. 

Colleges were quick to pick 
up on this and the pressure to 
maintain enrollments in¬ 
creased as students sought 
high grades in order to be 


casions to discuss various 
possibilities. The proposals 
were written, which the task 
force looked at, and then 
submitted to the Chancellor 
and Vice Chancellor for con¬ 
sideration. From this process 
evolved the grant," he ex¬ 
plained. 

“Basic programs included 
in the grant applications are: 
updating the computer 


admit that students now are equal, then all can achieve 
not as qualified on the whole, equally. This line of thinking 
or challenged as they once gave birth to the concept that 


Next week, we will look at 
the problem at UTM as well as 
the new awareness over grade 


factors at work in universities 
today that affect grades, and 
since grades are used to shed 
some light on a student's 
progress as well as his em¬ 
ployability, their importance 
to society as well as 
academics should not J>e 
overlooked. However, there is 
some question as to whether 
or not grades are meaningful 
anymore. Do they really in¬ 
terpret a person’s ability 
correctly? 

First of all, a basic question 
must be resolved. Will grade 
scales be relative or absolute’’ 
In other words does an “A” 
mean excellent work for the 
field of study, or does it mean 
the student is producing work 
that would, relative to his 


higher education is for all, inflation. 


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The Pacer. Martin Teaaea.ee, Tfcaraday. February 2, Iff* 


UTM submits proposals; f. 
possibility of AIDP grant 1 


Psychopathic Passion 


Jim Brewiand Tony Isbell enact a scene from 
Vanguard Theatre's upcoming production 
“Equus " The play is about a boy and his 
problems which causes him to blind six horses. 


get mixed up about religion, and is put under 
psychological care. 1116 play is slated for 
March 2-4 in the Fine Arts Auditorium. 


by LYNDA BARTELS 

Special Aa.ignmrnt. Editor 

An application for the 
Advanced Institutional 
Development Program was 
turned in last week, according 
to Ron SaU. dean of Graduate 
Studies and Research 
"The AIDP is the last in¬ 
stitutional grant that exists 
among federal funding 
agencies," SaU explained If a 
specific program wants aid 
they can apply to more 
specialized foundations, but 
the AIDP is arranged to 
benefit the entire insitution 
over a five year period, he 
elaborated 

Satz stressed that whether 
UTM gets any appropriations 
from AIDP is tentative, but he 
was optimistic about having 
the proposals in writing for 
identifying areas of need 
which can be acted upon in the 
future. 

“We will not know with any 
certainty until summer (about 
whether the AIDP grant has 


Grade inflation discussed; 
‘paradox’ nationwide trend 


by MARK FOWLER 
Staff Writer 

From the February 9, 1976 
Newsweek magazine come 
these statistics: in 1974, 82 per 
cent of the student body 
graduated cum laude from 
Harvard. At Stanford the 
average grade was an “A 


the subject would not 
elaborate much on this. It 
appears to be up to the in¬ 
dividual instructor. While 
some plot and give grades 
based on a statistical format, 
others make the grading 
system absolute and give 
“A's” and other grades ac- 


One of the reasons for 
declining classroom per¬ 
formance is that the 
requirements for entrance to 
college are lower, and perhaps 
rightly so. 

It’s not been too long since 
college was only available to 
the "upper crust" of society. 


Now, the people who are 
graduating from college are in 
some cases leading the 
unemployment rolls. 


been awarded to UTM)," he 
stated 

The maximum grant (or a 
single university is 83.8 
million which is an increase 
from last year's maximum of 
83 million, he added This 
fiscal year, beginning July 1, 
868 million, is the total o( the 
AIDP appropriations to be 
decided among those schools 
which actually receive funds 

"Some schools get the 
maximum amount," he 
commented He indicated that 
this was not usually the case 
and the amount of money 
awarded varies from school to 
school 

“Last year's odds were 
about one out of three (of 
schools which applied and 
received funding),” he 
remarked 

"About a year ago, in 
November ’76, Chancellor 
McGehee and Provost Jimmy 
Trentham asked me to work 
with other members to look 
into the feasibility and 
desirability of securing fun¬ 
ding under Titlelll," he stated 
(The AIDP is under Title III 
Higher Education Act of 1965, 
he pointed out.) 

“A task force called AIDP 
task force was established 
which I chaired,” Satz 
continued. 

The other members of the 
task force were Francis 
Gross, vice chancellor of 
business and finance, Ron 
Classon, director of the 
Counseling Center, and Phil 
Feldman, assistant professor 
in the department of 
elementary and secondary 


_ . _ ., _. • l ciciiiciuai y auu actuiiuai y 

Th ' s , P™ v f h J* education, Satz commented 

market at this point can t 


market at this point can’t 
absorb all the graduates that 
universities are producing. 
The second factor involved 


"We met with all the deans 
and chairmen of departments 
in UTM on numerous oc- 


parenon of existing programs 9® _ _ _ _ __ _ 

in the reading center, math ^ JO / 'O / / J 

lab, and mastery experience fig 
program, and expansion of the S 
Counseling Center for 2® 
students Various curriculums X 
that will be affected are U- , 

agricultural and natural ffi 

resources, criminal justice. 85 /Jpk . 

School of Business, com fig / . iUkirv ' ★ Everything fOT 

munications and broadcast X* ' G& 

journalism, home economics, 2 ® JBuliE. t (16 DTldP 

music, and careers in 95 Pi 

government service The 85 I fig 

library would benefit also" 9 ® I ( KffiPn a DrjHal 5 * 

"All programs will affect % U I Pw M W DllUdl 75 

students and (aculty-it's not fig t \ PfirKIlltant 9® 

onesided," he continued 82 uuiiailUPIII -X 

"Everybody-thal's what the 86 i #1 

institution is-wili benefit. 9 E E|II|B , r Dnntolr 75 

That’s why we applied n IUX ncNldlS fig 

"We do have the support of jg* ''aayi ■ ^ 

the president of the UT system 9$ *5 

" 1SSSI JfH ★Reception g 

"SSSSi. 1 r I tiering 

UTM to qualify for the AIDP JG r 1. fig 
were a high percentage of 2® U - ^8 a Cwpnino Wear Qv 

students receiving financial Jcg t m liciiiiij TfCdl as 

aid, and many students are <jj5 .11 w 

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universities face declining 
competence in entering 
college students. 

in a two part series 
The Pacer will take a look at 
the theoretical parts of the 
issue of grade inflation as well 
as the effects of inflationary 
grades on students at UTM. 

There seems to be several 


according to statistical 
probability - the bell curve. 
The bell curve is not always 
the best method, however. 
Occasionally a class may 
occur in which 75 percent of 
the class has an IQ of 125 
The disturbing thing about 
standards is that they are 
falling. Professors freely 


crank out students, we can’t 
just let it stay idle. Somebody 
must fill those rooms If you 
can’t find enough qualified 
students then change the 
qualifications." 

The crux of the problem, 
defined in Newsweek, is an 
overgrown equalitarian ethic, 
or since all men are created 


UT-Knoxville law school 
professor once stated that 
grade inflation is a national 
l rend resulting from intense 
competition for places in 
graduate schools. As schools 
sought to place their 
graduates, the pressure to let 
grades climb became too 
much to resist. 


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“Equus.'' which will be 
presented March 2-4 at 8 p m 
in the Fine Arts Theatre, has 
begun rehearsals according 
to Kandy Ftippin, director ol 
publicity 

In "Equus." a sta~.e boy 
systematically blinds six 
horses with a steel spike The 
community is horrified and 
longs only for swift punish 
men! (or the cruel and 
seemingly motiveless act. The 
stable boy is placed instead 
under the care of Martin 
Dysart, a psychiatrist who has 
had much success treating 


maladjusted juveniles A 
battle of the wits ensues, in 
which the professional 
training of Dysart is sorely 
tried by the nuerotic guiles of 
Alan Strang, the stable boy 
Dysart’s discovery of some of 
the motives that lead the 
stable boy to blind the horses, 
which he apparently loved, 
affect not only the boy, but 
Dysart himself In an ending 
that is both charged and 
provocative, the author raises 
almost as many new questions 
as he answered—questions 
that only the audience 
themselves can solve 


Since opening in New York, 

Equus,'' written by Peter 
Shaffer, has drawn rave 
reviews across the country, 
and won major awards on 
Broadway The New York 
Timet labeled "Equus" as not 
only a "psychic and mythic 
thriller, but also an essay in 
character and motive." 

Jim Brewi portrays Alan, 
the stable boy Martin Dysart, 
the psychiatrist, is portrayed 
by Tony Isbell Alan's parents 
Frank and Dora Strang are 
portrayed by Randy Flippin 
and Jennifer Hill 


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Football’s first lady speaks: 
tells life of a football wife 


by JANIE MILLER 
Sports Writer 

Behind every successful 
lootball coach stands a former 
basketball player At least, at 
UTM this is definitely the 
case For behind head football 
coach Vester Newcomb stands 
Charlene Newcomb, his wife 
of twenty-four years, and his 
favorite fan 

“I think it's real exciting, 
being a football coach's wife," 
Charlene said. “It's definitely 
different, and it’s broadened 
our views on a lot of things. Of 
course, I enjoy the winning 
more than the losing!" 

Charlene is extremely 
active, juggling her job as 
director of the Happy House 
Day Care Center, with 
teaching a Sunday School 


class at the First Baptist the females three to two. 

Church, being involved with Charlene went to college on a 
the Women's Faculty Club, basketball scholarship, as 
working on her masters in her daughter, Linda, is doing 
administration and super- now. This sports-oriented 
vision, and making a home for background has proven in- The Lady Pacers were in action against 

her husband and children. valuable, both as a personal MTSU last month UTM went on to win the 
An enthusiastic person, she satisfaction and in helping 
bubbles over with excitement Charlene keep relatively up- 
for anything and everything to-date in her husband's 

Coach Newcomb has done a world 

considerable amount of "You really need to like 
travelling in his sixteen years athletics, and understand 
of coaching, and Charlene has what your husband is doing as 
found life as a coach's wife a coach," she stated. "It is a 
fascinating totally different kind of life. 

"We have met so many and it can be confusing But if 
people from such different you have faith in your husband 
backgrounds, and it’s all been and his ability, there shouldn't 
an exciting adventure. At first be many problems.'' 

I wondered if it would han- The Newcombs have 

dicap the children in any way, recently celebrated their 
but I don't think it has It has twenty-fourth wedding an- 
been hard to leave at times, niversary, on January 15, so if 
but you know that you'll there have been problems, 
always have the friends you they’ve managed to overcome 
have made, and new ones are them Charlene is such a 
waiting down the road So dynamic person that somehow 
we’ve managed!” Charlene one can’t help but get the 
laughed feeling that with such a 

Sports aren’t exactly male woman behind him, Coach 
dominated in the Newcomb Newcomb can't help but have 
household, if you discount the a fantastic coaching career, 
fact that the males outnumber especially here at UTM. 


Watch this 


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Ballroom so that we can ac- on sale a week before the 
comodate more people.” event. Admittance was 50 

Proceeds from the show cents last year, but prices 
with go to the American Hear may be raised this year, ac- 
Fund Association. Last year cording to Cantrell, although 
the event raised $1,500 for the the increase would not exceed 
association. Groups that a dollar, 
would like to enter the event Follies T-shirts will also be 
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fee for each act. design as last year,” Cantrell 

Tickets for the show will go concluded. 


Phi Sig Follies, sponsored 
by Flii Sigma Kappa frater¬ 
nity, will be presented March 
8 at 8 p.m. in the University 
Fieldhouse 

This is the fifth year the 
social fraternity will sponsor 
the revue, consisting of 
variety entries by fraternities, 
sororities, dorms, and other 
campus organizations First, 
second, and third place entries 
will be awarded 

“The theme for this year’s 
event is 'Yesterday, The Way 
We Were," Gary Cantrell, 
Follies chairman stated. “We 
are having the Follies in the 
Fieldhouse instead of the 


Pounds of free milk 
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The varsity athletic our deep appreciation to 
program of UTM has received Larry Bates, the owner of 
a donation of 7.000 pounds of Bates Farm, for this gift.” 
milk from Bates Farm \n “We also want to thank the 
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Company and was processed, assistance that they gave." 
also without charge, by Carroll said the milk gift 
Turner's Dairy. would be used to help defray 

“A product gift such as the expenses of the athletic 
this is as important to our food table at UTM. 
athletic prograrp as a cash "This gift is the equivalent 
donation,” said Bob Carroll, of 11,500 glasses of milk," 
UTM assistant athletic Carroll said. "And milk is one 
director. “We want to express of the essentials for athlete* " 


| Trancendental meditation 
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Jt by GAIL SUTTON BENNETT 

T Copy Editor 

▼ An instruction in the 
A technique of Trancendental 
e, Meditation (TM) will be of- 
fered next week starting 
«ft February 8 at 7:30 p.m. in 
room 207 of the University 

7 Center .. ... .. 

“The TM course, sponsored 
by the UTM Student Inter- 
51 national Meditation Society 
T (SIMS), consists of two free 
i| introductory lectures, 
». February 8 and 9, one day of 
w* pergonal instruction, and 
^1 three days of classroom in 
i^l struction," Martha Zachry, 


SIMS advisor and UTM drop in metabolism rate. Yet, 
French instructor, stated even though the body is in a 

“The instructor has been deep state of rest during TM, 
invited from the Memphis TM the mind remains awake and 
center to give the two in- alert.” 
troductory lectures and to "Some of the benefits that 
offer the course to those who have been reported by 
are interested," Zachry ex- meditators and have been 
plained scientifically tested and 

Introduced in the United verified include: increased 
States in 1959 by the Maharishi learning ability, improved 
Mahesh Yogi of India, TM is ability to focus attention, 
now learned by approximately faster reaction time, im- 
15,000 persons of all ages each proved athletic performance, 
month in the U. S. and in many more rewarding and 
other countries around the productive interpersonal 
world. relationships, normalized 

TM is a simple technique weight, reduced depression, 
that does not involve con- increased inner control, 
centration, a rigid focusing of decreased anxiety, increased 
one's attention on one object, self confidence, faster 
or contemplation, thinking recovery from loss of sleep, 
about something. It does allow increased good humor and 
the mind to experience subtler decreased crime rate,” 
and subtler levels of the Zachrv concluded, 
thinking processes Also an advanced lecture for 

“Practiced 20 minutes twice all interested meditators will 
a day. the purpose is to relieve be given on Saturday, 
the mind and body of stresses February 11, at 7:30 p.m. in 
that have accumulated in the the Sociology Building It will 
system during one’s lifetime," include the showing of the 
Zachry elaborated. “The level Merv Griffin Show on which 
of rest that is experienced the Maharishi was a guest 
during TM is much deeper For more information about 
than the level of rest during the TM course, contact 
sleep This is due to a much Martha Zachry (7931) in the 
sharper decrease in oxygen office of Modern Foreign 
consumption during TM and a Languages. 


Center invites guests 
to Valentine social 


News Editor is to go and spend time." 

On February 11 at 6:00 There is no charge for 

Interfaith Center on Lovelace coming. You can come alone 

Street will have a Valentine or with a date; there is no 

Ball, according to Jeff charge either way, he added. 

Carianess, coordinator of the There will be two dance 
event. contests- one disco contest and 

This is the first time the one social dance contest. 
Interfaith Center has done this Prizes will be awarded to the 
type of thing, Carianess said, winners, Carianess said. 

The purpose of the ball is to "Anyone can come. All 

get people more acquainted students of any religion can 

with the Center, he added. come and have a good time,” 
“It is a good place to go to he said. "We want people to 
meet people and just have a come and we’re going to have 
good time,” Carianess stated lots of good music." 

"There is no pressure. I think “Committee heads for the 
if people who are not familiar social are Adella Monroe, 
with the Interfaith Center will Laurie Shields, and Melissa 
come to the social, they'll get Sugg. However, lots of people 
to know people there and find helped in preparing the ball," 
out what a really good place it Canvianess said. 


Panhellenic banquet set 
Woods to guest speak 


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The Panhellenic Banquet 
will be held February 8 at 5:30 
p.m. , according to Billie Ann 
Pace, director of Women’s 

Activities. 


"This is an annual affair 
which is sponsored by the 
Panhellenic Council. The 
purpose of the banquet is to 
recognize outstanding Greeks 


on campus and alumni," Pace Woman of the Year Award 
stated and the University Service 

Two awards are presented Award, 
at the banquet according to “Each sorority also 

Pace. These are the Greek recognizes one alumni from 
the Martin chapter that has 
made a contribution,” Pace 

G ** added The speaker for the 

banquet will be Jayne Ann 
Woods, ~ m 


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Monday night action against the University of North 
bama, the Pacers came up two points short as they lost by 
score of 57-55. Freshman forward Billy Ray Hampton (41) 
I eight points in the contest. 


Two players have been 
released from the UTM 
Varsity basketbe" team 
because of injuries i 1 lack of 
playing time, according to 
head coach Dr. Robert 
Paynter 

Guard Arnold Roberts, a 
•’4" senior from Sharon. 

reinjured a wrist 
which he hadseverly injured 
last season Due to the fact 
that he would be out of action 
for the remainder of the 

season. Roberts elected to 
remove his name from the 
team roster 

Also leaving the team was 
Steve Logan, a 6'7” junior 
from Hoopvilie, Georgia 
Logan, who played center, felt 
that he was not getting enough 
playing time to warrant 
staying on the team 


wouldn't play unless it was 
fun I have no bitter resent 
ments against the coaches or 
anything because I didn't get 
to play that much. I like to 


play baskethall. but I’m here 
at school for more than that 
My top priority is to get an 
education, and not just to play 
basketball There's a lot more 


Military unit hosts 
Drill Meet in April 


"Basketball is 
commented Logan 


fun,” 


by JULIE CLARK 
SUff Writer 

The West Tennessee High 
School Drill Meet will be held 
April 22, at the UTM Pacer 
SUdium 

Considered the state 
championship by many, this 
annual event is sponsored by 
the UTM ROTC department 

Seven hundred to 1000 high 
school students from over 40 
high schools will gather here 
to compete against each other 
for prises. 

In addition to providing a 
chance for teams to compete 
under fair judgement, this 
event serves as a school 
recruiting project Campus 
tours are provided for the 
visiting high school students 

“To the best of my 
knowledge, this activity 
brings more high school 
students to campus than any 
other activity," commented 


military science instructor 


"We firmly believe that 
once a student sees the 
beautiful campus and the 
attitudes of the college 
students, they just fall in love 
with it." said Captain Stearns, 
assistant professor of military 
science. 

“I have to agree with Lester 
C Steams, this campus is 
unique," added Glave. 


This event costs the high 
schools nothing except the bus 
expense to and from UTM 
According to Stearns, it is a 
prestige activity in the high 
schools. The students, mostly 
juniors and seniors, sponsor 
money-making projects in 
order to be able to come to 
UTM to compete. 


The Drill Meet also serves to 
enhance the military-campus- 
community relationship. 


U> college than just classes, 
but there's more than 
basketball, too." 

Assistant basketball coach 
Paul Kelly explained that 
without Roberts and Logan 
there would be only nine 
players on the Pacer squad 


“It happens toteams all of 
the time, lasing players" 
We're not allowed but twelve 
players anyway We have 
Rodney Campbell , who was 
red shirted, to help the team to 
practice, so in that respect we 
still have ten men " 

The basketball team has 
only ten or so more games this 
season, give or take a little 
snow and ice, and the Pacers' 
overall record for fifteen 
games is 5-9, while the Gulf 
South Conference record 
stands at 2-5 The next ball 
game is Saturday night 
against Southeastern 
Louisana, at 7:30 in the 
lieldhouse. 


The best laid plans of Mice 
ind Men are usually changed 
t>y rats and women. However, 
or the Pacers of UTM, it was 
:he snow which left them cold 
and inactive. 

The nearly two weeks of 
mow postponed two con- 

E erence games between 
lacksonville State and Troy 
nd one inter-state rivalry 
|game /against Union 
University. The Union game 
was re-scheduled for 

February 1 The status of the 
others will be announced. 

-..On January 12, the Pacers 
dropped another Gulf South 
Conference game as they lost 
to Mississippi College by the 
score of 64-55. However, the 
team came back home that 
Saturday night to defeat 
Purdue University by the 
:score of 63-49 The Pacers' 
record now is 4-9 overall and 1- 
4 in the GSC. 

Senior forward Joe Boddie 
continues to be the Pacers' 
leading scorer. Through the 
thirteen games. "Dr. Dunk," 
who picked up eight more 
slams during the games, is 
averaging 14.7 points per 
contest. This includes 27 of 29 
from the charity line to put 
him at an average of .931 
percent and ranked third in 
the nation from the line. 

Other high scores include 
Billy Ray Hampton (14.2) and 
Mike Patterson (11.7). Pat¬ 
terson also is the team's 
leading rebounder averaging 
9.2 caroms per game. Boddie 
has hauled down 6.9. 


Coming off of a 51-50 
decision over the Lions of 
North Alabama last Saturday 
night in Florence, Alabama, 
the Pacers fell to defeat as the 
Lions revenged themselves 
with a narrow 57-55 victory in 
the closing second of the 
game. 

The game was a classic 
rematch as both of the team 
came out shooting over 54 and 
55 percent from the field. 
However, the first half of 
play showed that the Pacers 
were shooting only a mere 50 
percent from the free throw to 
100 percent for the Lions. At 
the half, the Pacers 
downed by score of 35-23 


closing minutes Never¬ 
theless, the Pacers came up 
two short as they dropped 
their ninth game of the season 
to bring their record to 5-9 
overall and 2-4 in the Gulf 
South Conference 

in last night’s game against 
Union University, the Pacers 
came out victorious as they 
defeat them by the score of 82- 

79. The win was a revenge 
grudge held by the Pacers for 
an early defeat by Union. 


Gym floor causes 
more rescheduling 


The five and a half million 
dollar Physical Education 
complex, which has been 
lacking seats for nearly two 
years, was the reason for a 
change in intramural and 
recreational basketball 
games 


UTM boosted their record to 
6-9 overall and 2-4 in the GSC. 

The next home game will be 
February 4 against 
Southeastern Louisiana in a 
Conference game. Tipoff will 
be at 7:30. 


The Pacers were led in 
scoring by senior forward Joe 
Boddie with 19 followed by 
Patterson and Carr with 12 
and 10 respectively. 

After the second half tipoff, 
the two teams went two 
minutes and 20 seconds before 
Boddie hit one out of two to 
make the score 24-35. With 
10:47 remaining in the game, 
the Pacers had pulled the 
score within three points 1 36- 
39) but the wounded Lions 
from last Saturday's night 
defeat would not give into a 
determine Pacer team. As 
usually, the “Doctor Dunk" of 
UTM (Boddie) took the op¬ 
posing players to the circus as 
he put on a performance in the 
final two minutes and 52 
seconds which nearly gave the 
Pacers a win. Boddie got 10 of 
his 19 points within those 


ftobert Nielson, director of 
recreational sports, said that 
the gym floors were the 
reason for no sororities and 
intramural games. 

“The 'games have been 
cancelled because of the 
floors,” Nielson said. 
“However, there will be the 
fraternity intramural games 
played.” 

In the conversation with 
Nielson over the telephone, he 
added that the sororities will 
be involved in a water 
basketball intramural, In 
which, the game will be 
played within the width of the 
pool and there will be a three 
and a half feet regulation goal 

In other action, the 
racketball single and double 
tournament will be starting in 
February Dates will be 
posted in the P.E.Complex. 
The badminton open tour¬ 
nament has been rescheduled 
for February 24-25. 

The fraternity basketball 
games will start today along 
with the sororities' water 
basketball games at 6 and 7:30 
p.m. for the fraternities and 
6:30 and 7:30 p.m. for the 
sororities. 


According to Jim Hagger,in 
charge of the fraternity 
drawings, there will be 
games played on the 2,7,8,12, 
13, 14, 15, and 16 of February, 
with the last two days 
designated for championship 
games. 

JIhe first two days of 
competition will consist of the 
following fraternities: 

February 2: Alpha Tau 
Omega vs. Kappa Alpha Psi,6 
p.m. 

Kappa Alpha's vs. Omega 
Psi Phi,7:30 p.m. 

February 7: Phi Sigma 
Kappa vs. Alpha Gamma Rho 
6 p.m. 

Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Pi 
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Rotary Foundation offers 
fellowships, scholarships 


THE BOSKY DELL 


COUNTED CROSS STITCH 
WORKSHOP 


Rotary International has 
announced the availibility of 
three Rotary Foundation 
educational awards 'or young 
people in this distric or study 
abroad during academic year 
1978-79 The awards cover the 
costs of language instruction, 
transportation, food, lodging, 
and tuition. 

Rotarians are looking for 
scholars who are well- 
rounded. articulate, outgoing 
people who can interpret their 
homeland! as well as absorb 
the cultures of their country of 
study Candidates must apply 
for the awards by March 1, 
1978 through local Rotary 
clubs where they reside or 
study 

The Rotary Foundation or 
Rotary International, the 
world's oldest service club 
association, seeks to promote 
international goodwill and 
understanding. Its awards 
programs are supported by 
voluntary contributions of 
Rotarians and others 
worldwide. 

The foundation's awards are 
placed into several categories, 
the largest of which is the 
graduate fellowships. Each 
graduate fellow must be 
twenty through twenty-eight 
years old and have earned the 
equivalent of a Bachelor's 
degree prior to the com¬ 
mencement of the Fellowship 
year. UTM students should 


contact Dr DeWitt B Stone in Rotary clubs Applicants for 
the Department of Chemistry journalism awards, if 
(EPS 323) for information students, must have com 
and-or applications for the pleted at least two years of 
graduate fellowships college work in journalism 

"UTM has had excellent Professional applicants must 
applicants for the last three have been working for two 
years. Former awardees are years and be twenty-one 
Roy Herron who has com- through twenty-eight years 
pleted a year of study at the 
University of Edinburgh. 

Scotland, and Danny Lannom 
who is presently studying at 
the University of Darmstadt 
in Germany Steve Cox, a 1976 
psychology graduate from 
UTM will travel to England 
this fall to begin a year of 
study at the University of 
Hull," said Dr. Stone "We 
hope outstanding UTM 
students will continue to 

apply " 

Students who have com 
pleted only two years on the 
university level may apply for 
the Foundation’s 
Undergraduate Scholarships 
Applicants may not be 
married and must be eighteen 
through twenty-four years old 

Also available are awards 
for journalists which are 
granted to winners of a 
worldwide competition of 
candidates sponsored by 


Over the next three years 
the Foundation's trustees 
have committed 822 million 
for their programs None of 

the program’s awards can be 
made to Rotarians or their 
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IN OUR FAST-MOVING 
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WHO WILL REALLY 
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HAVE TO SAY. 


by ANITA DORAN 
Staff Writer 

According to "Occupations 
In Demand'a bulletin printed 
by the Department of Labor, 
engineering has more job 
openings than any other field, 
with electrical engineering at 
the top of the list. 

Available positions in this 
field were left 75 8 percent 
open, just ahead of chemical 
engineering with 75 percent 
jobs unfilled Mechanical 
engineering also had many 
openings with 74 6 percent 
jobs open 

Engineering openings were 
far above any other oc¬ 


cupation General duty nurses 
and computer programmers 
come in next at 72.3 percent 
and 71 4 percent respectively 

"If people are paying at¬ 
tention to newspaper and TV, 
they are noticing more and 
more about job opportunities 
for the graudate engineering 
and technologist," observed 
Charles P Callis, associate 
professor of engineering. 

Salary - ranges were higher 
for engineers than any other 
occupation The top salary for 
chemical engineers was 
$22,345, compared to $17,500 
for an accountant to the U.S. 
publication. 


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what you may have heard And this isn't the Abominable 
Snowman streaking through the trees, though it may look 
that way What it is is another sample of old man winter’s 
handiwork done in ice and snow -substances which have 
made going to class hazardous to your health, cancelled two or 
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What’s In It For Me? 


So Great 

The rewards of forsaking all else in order to 
follow Christ are so great as to be worth many 
times whatever it may be that one sacrifices Con¬ 
sider some of them (a) the wonderful joy which 
comes from knowing that one has been forgiven 
of his sins (Mk 16:16; Acts 1 38). (b) the wonder¬ 
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which comes from being forgiven, from having a 
good conscience, and from living daily as God 
would have one to live (Matt 5; 1-12; Phil 4 6-7). 
and (d) the great blessings of living one's life in 
hope of eternal life in heaven with God. (Tit. 1:2; 
Heb. 11:9-10) 

What To Do 

Jesus Christ, in the sacred scriptures (the 
Bible), gives us the proper insight into this whole 
matter of deciding what to do with 

one’s life: Love Him 
more than anyone or 
anything (Mk 


Many of us in the world today are still wor¬ 
shipping the world and the material things that 
belong to it. Dollars. Cars Houses. Honor and 
praise among men Sensual pleasure 

To some of us. entrenched in our own de¬ 
sires. the idea of God’s will is scary, perhaps even 
nonsensical. We want to be sure we understand 
what's in it for us. 

Islt Worth It? 

Even Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, had 
his doubts at one point In effect, he wanted to 
know if doing God's will was really worth giving 
up such things as family, home and job. “What 
shall we have therefore?" (Matt 19:27) The an¬ 
swer Jesus gave Peter was an inspiring blend of 
spiritual magnificence and earthly practicality 
Jesus made it clear that any sacrifice made in 
order to follow Him would result in (1) one hun¬ 
dredfold more, now in this life and (2) in the 
world to come, eternal life (Mk 10:29-30) 


12.28-31). give up whatever you must in order to 
truly put Him first in your life (Luke 14 26-33). 
and obey His will in order to be saved (Heb. 5:8-9; 
Matt. 7:21). If you will do that. He will bless you 
in this earthly life with “one hundredfold" more 
than you gave up. and in the world to come. He 
will give you eternal life (Matt 25:46; Mk 10: 
28-30; il Peter 1:5-11) 

An Invitation 

God has promised a crown of life (Rev 2:101 
God does not lie (Heb. 6:18; Titus 12). 

Won’t you accept the wonderful life God wants 
you to have? 

The Bible answers your deepest needs. Read and 
obey it today 


The Answer, 


For further information contact 
Church of Christ Student Center 
107 Mt. Peiia Rd. or call 587-4915 


LINDSEY WARREN and RALPH GILMORE 
are campus ministers.